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Christian Lamker

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Raumplaner | University of Groningen, Spatial Sciences | @rug.nl @frw-rug.bsky.social | www.raumplaner.net | #postgrowthplanning | all views are my own

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🪧 Public space and the city. Why democrats should worry about urban public space. Verena Frick (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) today at @rug.nl for the Where is Urban Politics series by @frw-rug.bsky.social , University College & @facultyofphilosophygroningen.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy #CityMatters26
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Post-growth and post-carbon futures in spatial planning? Questions between green political economy, social justice, and planning? @profjohnbarry.bsky.social visited us in 'City Matters: Urban Inequality and Social Justice' at @frw-rug.bsky.social yesterday. Thanks! #CityMatters26 #postgrowthplanning
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🏙️Lelystad - housing and urban development. 🫵 Planning is not easy, but worth it! Today with students of 'City Matters: Urban Inequality and Social Justice' (Master Society, Sustainability and Planning) from @frw-rug.bsky.social . Support by Centrada, INBO, NPLV Lelystad-Oost & others. #CityMatters26
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Student work ahead! Eight groups start working on their empirical research projects in Groningen in 'City Matters: Urban Inequality and Social Justice' at @frw-rug.bsky.social (Master Society, Sustainability & Planning). 🫶 If you see them, support them. #CityMatters26 #socialjustice
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
📆This month in Groningen & online: Where is Urban Politics Seminars. 1️⃣ Utopian Ideals & Concrete Utopias (15th) 2️⃣ Public space and the city. Why democrats should worry about urban public space. (30th) 🤓 Be there with us, sites.google.com/rug.nl/where... @frw-rug.bsky.social @rug.nl AESOP & others.
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Getting there again... 🌇 'City Matters: Urban Inequality and Social Justice' soon starting @frw-rug.bsky.social . 🤓Preliminary reading list is coming together. 🌱Yes, there's a lot more than reading - many applications and discussions coming up in Groningen & beyond. #CityMatters26
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Post-Growth Planning @postgrowthplan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If not now, when...? 🌱 Becoming a post-growth planner. 📻 34 episodes, 37 key thinkers. Pondering on obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices in spatial planning & beyond. 💚 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... & podcast apps. #postgrowthplanning #postgrowth #podcast #rolesinplanning
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Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices - YouTube
The episodes interview inspiring thinkers about contemporary planning and potentials for a transformation towards growth-independent roles and practices. The...
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College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr @college-uaruhr.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
JProf @mattkranke.bsky.social was a guest on the podcast @postgrowthplan.bsky.social. Host Christian Lamker talked with him and Malcolm Campell-Verduyn about their research on post-growth and #growth infrastructures, and their special issue on ‘(Post-)Growth Infrastructures’. 🎧 t1p.de/nawfa
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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #33: Matthias Kranke & Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn – postgrowthplanning.com
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Getting ready... Today at noon in Vancouver. Speaking about research @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl) and connections to #postgrowthplanning
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Published my last podcast interview this spring with Julia Grosinger (@icta-uab.bsky.social) in #34. Moving into rural areas, human needs, loved places, participatory methods. Always learning, loving this open format. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6XF... (also Spotify, Apple, website) #postgrowthplanning
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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #34: Julia Grosinger
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Great podcast, great host – thanks to @raumplaner.bsky.social for moderating this podcast episode. Link 👇 Link to the special issue in @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/5...
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Economy and Society
(Post-)Growth Infrastructures. Guest Editors: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke. Volume 54, Issue 4 of Economy and Society
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
🛣️Infrastructures and how to take socio-material relations (in #postgrowthplanning) seriously? Matthias Kranke (Duisburg-Essen) & Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn (Groningen) in 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner' #33. 📻 open.spotify.com/episode/7gcf... (also on YouTube & others) #podcast
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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #33: Matthias Kranke & Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
From systems thinking in housing to the manifesto for housing in a post-growth world. Running through #postgrowthplanning with @annapagani.bsky.social in podcast episode #32 - 'a collective activity of mutual learning, informed by a systems approach' 📻 open.spotify.com/episode/1N1z...
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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #32: Anna Pagani
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🌎 Extending the scope of 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner'. ❓How we change that big paradigm of architecture: building is growing, growing is welfare, and it's also progress and happiness. 🎯 Episode #31 at open.spotify.com/episode/0PEV... (also on other platforms) #postgrowthplanning #podcast
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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #31: Alejandro del Castillo Sánchez
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Thanks for joining the podcast @anitranelson.bsky.social 🌱. Becoming a Post-Growth Planner, episode 30. 🎙️ Also on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/3HeJ...
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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #30: Anitra Nelson
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
⁉️ "Citizens in urban futures, shaping post-growth planning together?" Invitation to join the talk and discusion in Vancouver (Canada) at Simon Fraser University on Fri 8 May. #postgrowthplanning #rolesinplanning
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
🌱It's growing! Three years & 11,600 views since "The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth" in @planningtheory.bsky.social (with Dan Durrant, Yvonne Rydin) 🛋️ doi.org/10.1080/1464... #postgrowthplanning @postgrowthplan.bsky.social
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The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth
Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🧭 Call for Papers: Complexity Unpacked: Analytical Tools & Practical Insights for Uncertain Futures. 🗓️ 8-9 Jan 2027, University of Nicosia (Cyprus). 24th Conference of the AESOP TG on Planning and Complexity. ⏰15 June 2026. See aesop-planning.eu/tg-news/plan... #AESOP #Complexity
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AESOP - Call for Papers: Complexity Unpacked (Nicosia/Cyprus, 8-9 Jan 2027)
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Anitra Nelson @anitranelson.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Great, thanks @postgrowthplan.bsky.social for the lively discussion on postgrowth planning futures centred on #horizontalism and #degrowth
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🌱 "Post-growth plannng is opening a debate and action on a social and material transformation to a more equitable and just relation between us and between us and earth". Thanks to @anitranelson.bsky.social for taking me (again) into your long experiences! 📻Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3HeJ...
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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #30: Anitra Nelson
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🐌 Slow down, scale out, work with. Feminist perspectives in post-growth planning. Guest lecture recording by @sware.bsky.social (CEU, Vienna) in #CriticalApproaches26 by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & myself in Groningen @frw-rug.bsky.social . ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGvL... #postgrowthplanning
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Sarah Ware: Feminist perspectives on post-growth planning
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Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen | Spatial Sciences @frw-rug.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Job alert! We're looking for an assistant professor in Spatial Planning and Design who has a PhD in the field of spatial design, spatial planning, geography, public administration, land and water management, with qualifications on spatial design. Deadline 3 April werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/ass...
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Assistant Professor Spatial Planning and Design - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
New episode of 'Becoming a post-growth planner' with @sofiagreaves.bsky.social . Looking back to what happened since our talk in 2023 (episode #16). And to what comes next in Oslo. "Spatial planning is in many ways generating problems for itself to solve, right?"📻 open.spotify.com/episode/6iRo...
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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #29: Sofia Greaves
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
City of the Commons or City of Commodities? ⁉️ How urban commons and social movements struggle for a radically democratic creative city in Groningen. Bart Popken (GSSI, Italy / @frw-rug.bsky.social) in the 'Where is Urban Politics?' series in Groningen (@rug.nl) 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=itg_...
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City of the Commons or City of Commodities? (Bart Popken)
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Andreas Kynast @andikynast.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"Verhängnisvoller politischer Fehler" Bundespräsident Steinmeier kritisiert den Iran-Krieg als "völkerrechtswidrig" - und die Bundesregierung, die ihn nicht so nennt.
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Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen | Spatial Sciences @frw-rug.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
PhD positions! Healthy & Sustainable Urban Regions: Exploring Evidence-Based Planning Approaches Inclusive, sustainable, & efficient accessibility: systematically evaluating and learning from smart initiatives Youth Inclusion in Decision-Making for Climate-Responsive Cities. Info werkenbij.rug.nl
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Alle vacatures - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🏙️ 🙅‍♂️'Institutional activism within the local state: exploring ambitions for deep transformation in Amsterdam'. Line Kvartborg Vestergard in a short interview for #PlanningDynamics26 (by Ferry van Kann & me @frw-rug.bsky.social) about her paper with Benedikt Schmid. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8W9...
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Interview: Institutional activism within the local state (Line Kvartborg Vestergaard)
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
🌱 Glad having Sarah Ware (@sware.bsky.social) from CEU Vienna tuning in for the last session of #CriticalApproaches26 today at @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl). 💡On 'Feminist perspectives in post-growth planning'. An immense pleasure teaching the course, coordinated by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social .
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Almost finishing #CriticalApproaches26 connecting from sustainability to post-growth planning yesterday (Master course by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & me at @frw-rug.bsky.social). 🌱 Last session tomorrow with Sarah Ware (Vienna) on feminist perspectives, and watching group projects!
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
'Models like heroes?' Felix Krawczyk from University of Kassel (@kasselinstitute.bsky.social) visited @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & me yesterday in #CriticalApproaches26 at @frw-rug.bsky.social for making integrated assessment models ready for deep carbonisation & socio-economic transformation.
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
'How climate imaginaries (re)shape space' - this Tuesday, @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & me had the privilege of having Juliana Gonçalves from TU Delft as a guest in #CriticalApproaches26 in Groningen at @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl). Visionary approaches, realities - and prefigurative politics.
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
🐌'Global Hinterlands and Regional Backyards: Values, Ethics, and Care for Earth’s community' - one of my favourite lecture weeks in #CriticalApproaches26 (in Groningen @frw-rug.bsky.social, coordinated by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social). 👍Thanks to curious, motivated, and motivating, Master students.
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
🎥Thanks to everyone for joining 'The Cost of Growth' yesterday in Groningen (@rug.nl, @frw-rug.bsky.social) with documentary producer Lena Hartog. 🌏 Organised by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & others, connected to #CriticalApproaches26
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Today in Groningen: 'The Cost of Growth | Doc Screening + After-talk' 📆 www.rug.nl/let/onze-fac... #CriticalApproaches26 @postgrowthplan.bsky.social @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social
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The Cost of Growth | Doc Screening + After-talk
- Who owns the economy? - Who pays the price for the never-ending thirst for economic growth? - How are communities resisting?
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
⁉️'Is land take a public or private decision?' Luke Juday visited us from @tuwien.at (Austria) yesterday in Groningen @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl). ⚖️ Delving into the ongoing international comparative study of six regions and urban growth and property rights. 🌱 Good luck with next research steps!
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
'Dit wordt Groningen'. 💡Organising the physical environment with the coming Omgevingsvisie (Environmental Vision) for our region. 💬 Ron Lander (Province of Groningen) today in #PlanningDynamics26 by Ferry van Kann & me at @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl) to our 3rd year Bachelor's students.
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Planetary boundaries in the real world - Ports & Global Maritime in #CriticalApproaches26 by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social &me at @frw-rug.bsky.social : 🌍A special pleasure welcoming Tanner Tuttle (@oneplanetport.bsky.social & alumni of #CriticalApproaches23) for presentation & open discussion!
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings
From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
#CriticalApproaches26
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Food for thought in today's #CriticalApproaches26 lecture @frw-rug.bsky.social . 🤓Open for further answers, thoughts, questions, ... - please share, also for coming years of the great course, coordinated by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social !
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Prof Jan Stielike from Jade Hochschule Oldenburg visiting us today in #PlanningDynamics26 in Groningen at @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl) . Comparing spatial planning systems, jumping into current socio-spatial challenges, strengthening collaborations in our region. 💡Making futures better together!
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Key thoughts for upcoming lectures in #CriticalApproaches26
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Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen | Spatial Sciences @frw-rug.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Experts Ward Rauws en Sander van Lanen bepleiten dat de Ontwerp-Nota Ruimte aan kracht en robuustheid wint wanneer onderliggende waarden expliciet worden gemaakt en keuzes scherper worden uitgewerkt www.rug.nl/frw/news/fac...
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Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen RUG steunt nationale ruimtelijke regie, maar roept op tot scherpere keuzes in Ontwerp-Nota Ruimte
De Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG) spreekt haar waardering uit voor de Ontwerp-Nota Ruimte, waarin het Rijk...
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
⚠️There are things that are just no market goods, to begin with: basic human rights, sovereign countries and territories, freedom of thinking and speaking.
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
🎙️ 28th podcast episode with Christian Schulz (Luxembourg). 💡 Post-growth planning is: "...an approach to overcome unwanted growth and thus to establish a strong sustainability both in social and environmental terms". ⏩ Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/36Zi... #postgrowthplanning #podcast
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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #28: Christian Schulz
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Post-Growth Planning @postgrowthplan.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
🌱 All I want for Christmas is... maybe less growth-bias, fewer growth-obsessions, and more #postgrowthplanning? 🎄☃️ Peaceful Christmas days to everyone and equally to everyone who is not celebrating it 🌍. 📽️ And material for further thoughts: www.youtube.com/@postgrowthp...
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Post-Growth Planning
Post-Growth Planning: A planning in which growth is neither a necessary starting point to plan nor a goal that must be achieved by means of planning. It works on change but does not set economic growt...
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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ Almost getting towards the final days of the year. Time for looking back to 2025 in twelve notes: www.raumplaner.net/2025/12/12-n... . 🌱Discussions welcome.
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12 Notes of 2025 | Christian Lamker | Raumplaner | Blog
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Post-Growth Planning @postgrowthplan.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
📻Tuning in for Christmas... 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner: Obstacles and Challenges to Changing Roles and Practices'. 27 episodes with 29 key thinkers. ▶️ youtube.com/playlist?lis... #postgrowthplanning #postgrowth #spatialplanning #podcast
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Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices - YouTube
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Environmental Psychology Groningen @epgroningen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
There are 10 (!) #PhD positions available through the ECCO project (which our colleagues Lise Jans and Ellen van der Werff are part of) on #sustainable transitions - deadline to apply is 15 February: www.collectievekracht.eu/ecco/ecco+pr... @collectievekracht.bsky.social
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